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AUTOBACS SEVEN is ready to start drag racing Pep Boys. The company retails automotive items through more than 640 stores, primarily in Japan, under the names AUTOBACS, Super AUTOBACS, and AUTOBACS Hashiriya Tengoku, among others. AUTOBACS are small, automotive convenience-type stores, while the larger-sized Super AUTOBACS carry a broad range of auto products. The Hashiriya Tengoku locations boast used parts. AUTOBACS also provides safety inspections and maintenance services, sells cars, and retails gas. Operating about 90 stores outside Japan, AUTOBACS opened its first US store -- twice as big as the typical Pep Boys outlet at 35,000 sq. ft. -- in Orange County, California. AUTOBACS SEVEN was founded in 1947.

Strauss Discount Auto was founded in 1919 by two friends named Herman Schlenger and Harry Roth. Their first store, located on a street corner in Newark New Jersey, was originally known as Roth & Schlenger Home and Auto Supplies. Due to the financial success of the company, Roth & Schlenger Home and Auto Supplies (R&S) continued to expand by opening retail stores throughout the northern New Jersey region. In 1954, R&S Home and Auto opened its first superstore, a one of kind store within its time. This was the first store to include a service garage and repair facility as well as the amenity of customer parking.AUTOBACS STRAUSS (dba Strauss Discount Auto) operates about 85 auto-parts stores in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Strauss Discount Auto stores sell about 250,000 items, including accessories and car-care products, as well as hard parts such as batteries, mufflers, radiators, and spark plugs, tires, and tools. (About 70 of its locations offer repair service.) The company was created in 1982 through the acquisition of Strauss, a New York City auto-parts chain founded in 1919, by R&S Auto. It was later acquired by Japan's AUTOBACS SEVEN CO. in 2007.

AutoZone, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer and distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories. Its stores offer various products primarily to do-it-yourself customers for use in cars, sport utility vehicles, vans, and light trucks, including new and remanufactured automotive hard parts, maintenance items, accessories, and non-automotive products. The company’s automotive hard parts product line includes A/C compressors; batteries and accessories; belts and hoses; carburetors; chassis; clutches; CV axles; engines; fuel pumps; fuses; ignition; lighting; mufflers; starters and alternators; water pumps; radiators; and thermostats. Its maintenance items include antifreeze and windshield washer fluid; brake drums, rotors, shoes, and pads; chemicals, including brake and power; steering fluid, oil, and fuel additives; oil and transmission fluids; oil, air, fuel, and transmission filters; oxygen sensors; paint and accessories; refrigerant and accessories; shock absorbers and struts; spark plugs and wires; and windshield wipers.AutoZones discretionary product line comprises air fresheners; cell phone accessories; drinks and snacks; floor mats and seat covers; mirrors; performance products; protectants and cleaners; sealants and adhesives; steering wheel covers; stereos and radios; tools; and wash and wax products. The company also offers commercial sales program that provides commercial credit, and delivery of parts and other products to local, regional, and national repair garages, dealers, service stations, and public sector accounts. In addition, it sells the ALLDATA brand automotive diagnostic and repair software, as well as automotive hard parts, maintenance items, accessories and non-automotive products on the Web at www.autozone.com. As of August 29, 2009, AutoZone operated 4,229 stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, and 188 stores in Mexico. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

In late 1935, the NAPA member companies decided to form their own company to “re-package” parts manufactured by others. The new company would purchase from various manufacturers and redistribute to NAPA warehouses, thus developing NAPA’s own private purchasing company. The NAPA Board of Directors formed the Balkamp Manufacturing Corporation on March 11, 1936 with an initial investment of less than $50,000. The company took its name from the names of two of its early managers, John Baldwin and his assistant, Bob Leerkamp.Balkamp had humble beginnings. With only three employees, the company operated out of 1,000 square feet on the second floor of a small building on Capital Avenue in Indianapolis. By the end of its first five years, the employee count grew to 18 and the operation grew to 8,000 square feet in size. Balkamp has NAPA product Distribution Centers located in Plainfield, Indiana, Greenwood, Mississippi, and Salt Lake City, Utah. These strategically placed operations serve all NAPA Distribution Centers and UAP in Canada. Balkamp can ship to each NAPA DC in less than 48 hours from order receipt to delivery. In addition, Balkamp ships to 17 DC’s twice a week and handles over 1,500 NAPA Auto Parts Store shipments each month.

With its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, CARQUEST Auto Parts is the premier supplier of replacement products, accessories, supplies and equipment for virtually all makes of automobiles, as well as light and heavy-duty trucks, off-road equipment,buses, recreational vehicles and agricultural equipment. Additionally, it distributes and sell tools, equipment, chemicals, paint and accessories. Beyond the quality and depth of the product lines, CARQUEST leverages innovative technologies and innovative service solutions to provide a range of unmatched, value-added benefits. Designed to provide customers and partners alike with distinct competitive advantages, these services include everything from world-class technical training in the latest repair and maintenance techniques to Internet-based solutions that make CARQUEST easier to do business with.At CARQUEST, customer service is driven by 18,000 teammates who are passionate about delivering excellence in everything they do. This dedication is enhanced by a sophisticated network of distribution centers and advanced, automated inventory, and delivery management technology. CARQUEST always delivers the right products to the right place at the right time.

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